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Navy Chief Has Unique Connection to BALTOPS
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Photo By Petty Officer 1st Class Daniel Young | Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Shannon E. Renfroe, assigned to Fleet Combat Camera Pacific, takes photos of the "Chargers" of Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron (HSC) 14 and the "Raptors" of Helicopter Maritime Strike Squadron (HSM) 71 while they conduct a Helicopter Visit, Board, Search, and Seizure (HVBSS) training exercise with a Range Support Craft (RSC) 1 in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of San Diego, Feb. 18, 2015. The exercise was part of the Helicopter Advanced Readiness Program (HARP) in preparation for squadrons' upcoming deployment with Carrier Air Wing Nine (CVW-9) in support of the USS John C. Stennis (CVN-74) and Carrier Strike Group Three (CSG-3) operations. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Daniel M. Young/Released) see less | View Image Page
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Story by Petty Officer 1st Class Scott Wichmann
Commander, U.S. 2nd Fleet
KIEL, Germany -- Multinational military exercises afford service members from participating nations an opportunity to see new places, forge new relationships and increase operational proficiency in a joint environment.
For Chief Mass Communication Specialist Shannon Renfroe, participating in Baltic Operations (BALTOPS) 2019 meant much more.
BALTOPS 2019 is the premier annual maritime-focused exercise in the Baltic region, designed to enhance flexibility and interoperability among the 18 participating allied and partner nations.
Currently serving as production chief and lead aerial photographer at Navy Public Affairs Support Element West, located in San Diego, Calif., Renfroe's arrival in Kiel, Germany, represented a long-awaited homecoming.
Renfroe, whose parents met in Berlin during the 1970s, spent the early part of her life in Germany.
Returning to the country as part of BALTOPS made her reflect on an enduring childhood memory which now holds a deeper significance.
"I distinctly remember as a child, looking through a crack in the Berlin Wall," said Renfroe. "I remember seeing a green field and asking my mother, 'What's so different on the other side?'"
Renfroe's parents connected in Berlin while her mother was studying graphic design and her father was stationed with the U.S. Army attached to the Berlin Brigade.
"My mother was born in Czechoslovakia and she left when she was sixteen," said Renfroe. "Her mother moved her to an all-girls home in Berlin during the 1968 Soviet invasion."
According to Renfroe, the pair began an unusual and unlikely relationship.
"She didn't speak English, he didn't speak German," she said, "but they started courting each other, fell madly in love, got married and had twins. I have a twin brother."
Renfroe said her introduction to the English language came through a distinctly German prism.
"German was my first language," Renfroe recalled. "It wasn't until kindergarten where the teachers were telling my parents 'You know, your children really should learn English.'"
Renfroe said her father accepted orders to be stationed in Turkey, giving her an opportunity to spend her formative years experiencing an entirely new culture.
"In 1990 we moved to Izmir, Turkey," she said, "We lived there from the time I was in third grade up until before my freshman year of high school. It was German, English, Turkish in that order," she explained, becoming fluent in Turkish as well.
Renfroe was ecstatic to volunteer for BALTOPS because of its location and the opportunity it afforded her to interact with Turkish and German military forces.
"They say 'home is where the heart is,' and I associate Turkey with home, just because it was such a huge part of my childhood," she said. "In fact, one of the first questions I asked (before being assigned to BALTOPS) was 'Is Turkey involved?'"
Renfroe said she's already experienced both commonality and camaraderie with her Turkish and German Navy counterparts.
"Today I bumped into three Turkish Sailors," she said, "and as we were speaking, they were all surprised because I don't look Turkish nor have an accent. It was nice being able to connect with complete strangers through language and the experience of both sharing Turkey as home."
Renfroe joined the U.S. Navy as a photographer in March, 2001, something she admits she never could have imagined herself doing when she was younger.
"I didn't know the Navy had a photography program," she said. "I didn't think there was room for creativity in the Navy or the service in general."
Renfroe jokingly suggested she had to be gentle while breaking the news of her career decision to her father.
She said that when she told him her plans of joining the Navy, he was upset it wasn't the Army.
U.S. Navy Lt. Matthew Stroup, public affairs officer at Naval Surface and Mine Warfighting Development Center (SMWDC) in San Diego, said Renfroe's experience, photographic acumen and technical expertise made her the perfect fit to provide BALTOPS documentation.
"It's something we didn't have available during previous mine warfare exercises at SMWDC," Stroup said, in reference to naval aircrewman's aerial photography. "She is the right person to have on our team to show how valued photographic expertise is to the mission."
Stroup added that Renfroe's unique background also contributes to the mission.
"In our community, we're all about the value of relationships," said Stroup. "She has a tremendous ability to empathize with others, which I suspect comes from having such multi-faceted life experiences."
Renfroe urged her fellow service members to take advantage of the cultural exchange and the opportunity to build relationships with sailors from other nations while also training together during BALTOPS 2019.
"I encourage my American counterparts to really experience the culture and stories of the international forces around us," she said. "There are more commonalities than we think, and getting to know one another, in these curious ways, translates to stronger bonds, both operationally and culturally."
Renfroe stated that she already finds her BALTOPS experience a rewarding one.
"It is really great being here, having the opportunity to connect with Turkish, German and all international Sailors." she said. "It is a win-win. I appreciate being able to see that commonality, and sometimes it simply begins with a hello in their native language."
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Q: Confused with diodes and conventional vs real current flow What would happen in the following hypothetical situation?
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A diode must actually receive the electron current and voltage on its negative side, i.e. the N-side.
And that is why we connect the positive side of the battery to the anode and the negative side of the battery to the cathode of the diode, because in reality, a diode receives voltage and electrons from the negative side of the battery, because in truth, the current and voltage flows from negative to positive.
And I know that we, like everywhere else, we use conventional current but...
What if, for example...
We have two diodes in one circuit.(light light-emitting diodes)
One diode A is located above the circuit, and it needs a bias forward of 0.7 V to turn on, if it does not receive that amount, it will not let any electrons pass through it.
The other diode, called B, is on the right side of the circuit, and needs a 0.4V bias forward to light up.(let current flow)
And so, with the battery on the left side of the circuit, the battery is 0.6V. So this battery would let us turn on the B diode but not the A diode.
The battery has the symbol + up and - down, like all the others.
So...
in this case, wouldn't the diode led B light up without the need of  the diode A to pass current?
Because according to the conventional current model: the voltage and the current would come out from the + side of the battery, it would go through Led A, and Led A would not receive enough forward bias, so the electrons would be stuck, and the voltage would reach Led B, but the current would not, so Led B would not light up.
Although according to the model of real current direction: the voltage and current of the battery would come out from the - side of the battery, it would go through the cathode of led B, with enough forward bias (+0.4 needed for led B) and the current and voltage would come out from the anode of led B, this current and voltage would reach the cathode of led A, and because it does not have the necessary forward bias, it would not turn on ...
So, based on the actual current direction, wouldn't diode B light up, even though no current passes through diode A?
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A: Look, you are just going to have to learn to deal with Ben Franklin's mistake (see hackastical's xkcd cartoon). Most of us have been there in our early days. pipe's comment is spot on. If you're doing solid state physics and talking about n-type semiconductors, then you need to think about electron flow. If you're building an LED circuit, forget electron flow and go with current. Current is produced (in conductors) by electrons, true enough, but electrons flow in the opposite direction as current. At some point you'll understand that it's just a convention, and has no deeper significance, and you can get on with your life.
Now. Your LED issue arises from your forgetting Kirchoff's Voltage and Current Laws: the sum of voltages around a loop is zero, and every connection point has zero net current. So, with 0.6 volts across the two LEDs, each LED must have at most 0.6 volts across it (KVL), and will in practice have less, with the two summing to 0.6. So the
0.7 volt LED has zero current through it, which means the 0.4 will too (KCL), and with no current through either LED, neither will light up.
And yes, this means that the actual distribution of voltages across the two LEDs is undefined. When you make a more reasonable (realistic) model of the LEDs, leakage effects will allow a more reasonable voltage distribution. But the voltage across the 0.7 volt LED will not reach 0.7 volts and the LED will not have much light output. Depending on the exact materials used, it's possible that the 0.4 volt LED will light up slightly.

A: *

*It's Ben Franklin's fault. Deal with it.

From here: https://xkcd.com/567/

*Your diagram shows a battery voltage of 0.6V. Not tall enough for your electrons to ride the Vf quantum-mechanical ride and light those LEDs, which have Vf (forward voltage) ranging from 1.1 for an infrared type to over 3V for ultraviolet.

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[A] diode must actually receive the electron current and voltage on its negative side ...

Electron drift will be inbound on the cathode (if you want the LED to light). But note that the diode symbol contains an arrow that denotes the direct of conventional current flow.

And that is why we connect the positive side of the battery to the anode and the negative side of the battery to the cathode of the diode, because in reality, a diode receives voltage and electrons from the negative side of the battery, because in truth, the current and voltage flows from negative to positive.

Or, "We connect the anode to positive because, in truth, conventional current flows from positive to negative". It's the same from a circuit analysis point of view.

What if, for example ...
  We have two diodes in one circuit.(light light-emitting diodes).
  One diode A is located above the circuit, and it needs a bias forward of 0.7 V to turn on, if it does not receive that amount, it will not let any electrons pass through it.

It won't let conventional current pass through either.

The other diode, called B, is on the right side of the circuit, and needs a 0.4V bias forward to light up (let current flow).
  And so, with the battery on the left side of the circuit, the battery is 0.6V. So this battery would let us turn on the B diode but not the A diode.

Incorrect. They voltage will be spread across them and neither will turn on.

The battery has the symbol + up and - down, like all the others.
  So in this case, wouldn't the diode led B light up without the need of the diode A to pass current?

Figure 1. Typical I-V curves for a range of LEDs. Source: LEDnique.com.
No. Current flows in a loop. If any device in a series circuit blocks the current then no current will flow. Incidentally, the lowest LED forward voltage, Vf, is for infrared LEDs and is in the range of 1.2 to 1.4 V.

Because according to the conventional current model: the voltage and the current would come out from the + side of the battery, it would go through Led A, and Led A would not receive enough forward bias, so the electrons would be stuck, and the voltage would reach Led B, but the current would not, so Led B would not light up.

Fairly muddy thinking here.

Although according to the model of real current direction: the voltage and current of the battery would come out from the - side of the battery, ...

You are confusing current flow and mobile charge flow. We all just stick with conventional current flows from positive to negative while understanding that, at least in metallic conductors in particular, charge is carried by mobile electrons.

... it would go through the cathode of led B, with enough forward bias (+0.4 needed for led B) and the current and voltage would come out from the anode of led B, this current and voltage would reach the cathode of led A, and because it does not have the necessary forward bias, it would not turn on ...

As explained already, current can not flow through one of your LEDs and not through the other.

Figure 2. The diode check-valve analogy
from  What is an LED?
LEDs are diodes (that emit light). Diodes are electrical non-return valv
If you look at the check-valve in the figure above, it should be clear that the spring normally keeps the ball in position and prevents back-flow. When "forward-biased" the ball shut-off can be moved against the spring but it will take some initial pressure to move the ball. This results in a pressure drop across the valve: the pressure downstream will be less than the inlet pressure.
In a similar manner the PN junction causes a voltage drop. For silicon it is about 0.7 V. For LEDs it will be higher and depend on the dopants used to generate the wavelength or colour of the emitted light.
Pushing the analogy a little further, we can also see that further pressure drop will occur due to the constriction of the valve. The more water we push through the valve the more the pressure will drop. This will be added to the initial pressure drop required to open the valve in the first place. The resultant pressure drop graph will look remarkably like one of the I vs V curves in Figure 1.
It should also be clear that connecting two of these in series will require the pressure (voltage) to rise to double the value of one valve before current will flow.

So, based on the actual current direction, wouldn't diode B light up, even though no current passes through diode A?

No.


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With the rise of anti-Muslim hate in the United States, Muslims in the United States are facing renewed discrimination and violence. Muslim immigrant youth must find ways to navigate this hostile environment at a time when they are moving through adolescence and into early adulthood. Many seek information about sexuality and sexual health but there are seldom resources that are culturally and linguistically appropriate for them to use. For many, cultural practices and social norms deem sexuality education as taboo, leaving them unable to discuss sex or their sexuality with their families or their larger community.
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Driven by these dire circumstances and building on Advocates' existing Muslim Youth Project, Advocates has created the Muslim Youth Leadership Council (MyLC). The long-term goal of the project is to create safe and supportive environments for Muslim youth, regardless of sexual orientation, gender identity or immigration status, both within mainstream Muslim communities and among U.S. communities as a whole. Specifically, this initiative aims to build the skills and resilience of a strong national cohort of Muslim-identifying young people in the United States, including LGBTQ and immigrant youth. The Council currently has 15 members who will be engaging in cultural and political advocacy at the national and community levels to build empathy and support for, and improve policies and programs that impact their health and well-being and that of their peers.
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Aplique para un premio de la Iniciativa IDEA: Innovación para los Derechos Reproductivos en América Latina
Premios IDEA buscan proyectos en fase de crecimiento temprano que quieran perfeccionar su producto o servicio y potenciar su escalamiento e impacto social, integrando su visión con la de Planned Parenthood Global, con miras a aportar soluciones innovadoras, creativas y reales para afrontar los desafíos críticos para la salud y derechos reproductivos, entre los que se encuentran la educación sexual, el embarazo no deseado, el aborto inseguro y la violencia sexual en América Latina.
Seis proyectos recibirán una beca para participar del Foro IDEA, a celebrarse el 16 y 17 de Noviembre del 2017 en Quito, Ecuador. Además podrás participar en la Etapa de Pitch Final durante el Foro IDEA. Una vez realizado el proceso de evaluación de cada pitch, se seleccionará un máximo de 3 proyectos ganadores que recibirán entre EEUU $10.000 y $15.000 en Capital Semilla para darle seguimiento al proyecto postulado. La fecha tope para presentar su idea es el 27 de septiembre. Para más información, ir aqui.
Participate in survey to inform UN/NGO cooperation for sexual diversity within the education sector
During 2012-2016, UNESCO has cooperated with a number of LGBT NGOs on research concerning sexual diversity in education. This survey tries to assess the level of involvement of civil society organizations in relation to the strategies of UNESCO and other UN organizations and the needs for further involvement and cooperation n education.The survey results will be used to develop recommendations for future cooperation between civil society and the UN. The survey is organized by GALE (the Global Alliance for LGBT Education) and RenfoCap Centre on behalf of the No-Bullying-Coalition. The deadline is October 1st, 2017. To access the survey, go here.
Apply to the open call for promising innovations to prevent gender based violence
The World Bank Group and Sexual Violence Research Initiative (SVRI) have launched a new open call for awards recognizing promising innovations aimed at preventing gender-based violence. Applications to the Development Marketplace for Innovation in Prevention of Gender-Based Violence must be received online by October 6, 2017.
SVRI and the World Bank Group will disburse more than US$1 million to advance evidence-based interventions to prevent gender-based violence (GBV) in low- and middle-income countries. An expert panel will select winners engaged in research, interventions, or other activities related to GBV prevention based on overall merit, research/project design and methods, significance, project manager/team, and ethical considerations. For more information, go here.
Apply to be a Women Deliver Young Leader
Started in 2010, the Young Leaders Program provides youth advocates with the training and resources necessary to extend their influence and actively shape the programs and policies that affect their lives. Currently comprised of 400 youth advocates from more than 100 countries, the new class of 300 new Young Leaders will join the program early 2018.
All young people between the ages of 15 and 28 are welcome to apply and can access the application here. The application closes on October 13th, and the incoming class of new Young Leaders will be selected and notified of their acceptance in December.
Tools You Can Use
The Digital 2017 World Population Data Sheet
By the Population Reference Bureau
The newly released digital version of the 2017 World Population Data Sheet 's special theme is the world's youth population, with a focus on young women and adolescent girls ages 15-24. It includes key health and population indicators, as well as population projections, for the world, world regions, and more than 200 countries and territories. The landing page on www.worldpopdata.org is an interactive feature with sections containing videos and graphics on topics such as the percentage of youth who are not engaged in education or employment, growing non-communicable disease risk behaviors among youth, trends in modern contraception use among young married women, and HIV/AIDS rates among young people in sub-Saharan Africa. To access the materials, go to www.worldpopdata.org.
Understanding Menstrual Hygiene Management and Human Rights
By Human Rights Watch
This guide discusses how the biological fact of menstruation, the necessity of managing menstruation, and society's response to both is linked with women's and girls' human rights and gender equality. Intended for practitioners who work directly on menstrual hygiene management (MHM) at the country level and internationally, the guide serves to position and explain the human rights framework relevant to MHM. To access the guide, go here.
Comparative Analysis: Policies Affecting Family Planning Access for Young Women in Guatemala, Malawi, and Nepal
By USAID and Health Policy Plus
This comparative analysis examined the family planning needs of young women in Guatemala, Malawi, and Nepal, and how the policy environment shapes their access to services. In all three countries, adolescents make up a significant proportion of the population, and economic and social environments place barriers in the way that these women seek to achieve their sexual and reproductive health goals. Partly as a result, compared to older women, adolescents have the lowest use of family planning and highest unmet need for services. To access the report, go here.
Méthodes contraceptives réversibles à longue durée d'action (CRLDA) pour les jeunes
Par la Collaboration sur les Capacités en Communication Sanitaire
Voici une collection de matériel éducatif qui présente le DIU et l'implant comme deux options saines et fiables pour la contraception chez les jeunes. Cette collection comprend six affiches, une brochure client, une vidéo, et un guide de discussion destinés aux prestataires de santé. Ces outils peuvent être adaptés et intégrés aux formations pour les prestataires ainsi qu'aux projets en cours sur les services de contraception fournis aux jeunes.
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Youth-friendly Health Services Training Manual: Second Edition
By the Republic of Malawi Ministry of Health
This updated Youth-friendly Health Services Training Manual, developed by the Ministry of Health in Malawi with support from HP+, aims to improve the way service providers respond to the needs of young people and improve providers' ability to communicate with other stakeholders to improve young people's health. The facilitators guide and participants handbook are intended to be used for training health care providers and other professionals (such as psychologists, social workers, teachers, youth development workers, community-based distribution agents, and youth peer educators), as well as young people themselves on the special characteristics of young people and the appropriate approaches to address priority health needs.
To access the facilitator's guide, go here.
To access the health services training manual, go here.
How to Report Human Rights Violations Faced by LGBT People to National Human Rights Institutions (NHRIs) in South Asia
By APCOM
This guidance booklet was developed for activists and LGBT communities in South Asia. It contains a series of questions and answers on the function of NHRIs in defending and protecting the human rights of LGBT citizens, including how to send a complaint. The booklet is also available in Bengali, Hindi, Nepali, Pashto, Sinhala, Tamil and Urdu. You can access the booklet in multiple languages here. And a handy pamphlet for easy printing in English here.
Chile abortion: Court approves easing total ban. Chile's constitutional court has voted to approve a bill to ease the country's total ban on abortions. It ruled that terminations are justified after rape, if the mother's life is at risk or if the foetus is not expected to survive the pregnancy. To read the article, go here.
India rape victim, 13, seeks curt approval for abortion. The parents of a pregnant 13-year-old rape victim from the Indian city of Mumbai have gone to the Supreme Court seeking permission to abort her baby. The girl is 30 weeks pregnant. Indian law allows terminations after 20 weeks only if the mother's life is in danger. To read this article, go here.
Nepal outlaws menstruation huts, but what will take their place? Radhika Kami lives with her family of six in a traditional mud-and-brick house in a rural village in Nepal's Kanchanpur district — for most of the year. For about five days each month, the 16-year-old is banished to a hut — a windowless, ramshackle shed with a small door and poor sanitation and ventilation — and is forbidden from touching other people, cattle, any fruits and vegetables that are growing, even books. To read this article, go here.
Lamido Sanusi, Kano's 'progressive fraud', takes aim at child marriage in Nigeria. As the emir of Kano in northern Nigeria, one of 13 states where there is no minimum age for marriage, he is well placed to understand the issue. Yet Sanusi, a hugely symbolic religious figure, is at pains to point out that it is a social rather than scriptural problem. To read this article, go here.
'Add Female Genital Mutilation to Domestic Violence Law' – NAWOGA (Liberia). A local Non-governmental organization, the National Working Group Against Female Genital Mutilation (NAWOGA FGM) has described as a disservice the omission of the component of 16.21 which addresses the issue of Genital Mutilation. To read this article, go here.
Concern Over Popular Contraceptive and HIV Vulnerability in South Africa. Recent studies have shown that the three-month injectable contraceptive Depo-Provera might make people more vulnerable to contracting HIV. In South Africa, where more than 7 million people are infected with HIV, the injectable is the most commonly used contraceptive. To read this article, go here.
Pride Uganda has been crushed. Please don't look away. Since 2012 we have celebrated Pride in Uganda. Our Pride is very different to the Pride parades in London or New York. Rather than hundreds of thousands, we have a few hundred LGBT Ugandans, and our friends who sympathise with our struggle, attending our event. We usually keep away from big public crowds and public places to avoid confrontations. To read this article, go here.
COMING UP!
September 28 is Global Day of Action for Access to Safe and Legal Abortion!
There are 1.2 billion young people ages 10-24 in the world today. Worldwide, approximately 16 million adolescent girls ages 15 to 19 give birth each year, accounting for approximately 11 percent of all births worldwide. For these girls, complications from pregnancy and childbirth are the second leading cause of death globally and unsafe abortion is an important contributor to this mortality. Adolescents are at particular risk of having an unsafe abortion–every year, some 3 million adolescent girls aged 15 to 19 undergo unsafe abortion.
To mobilize for access to safe and legal abortion for all, join the September 28 Global Day of Action for Access to Safe and Legal Abortion. For over 20 years, the campaign has been a regional campaign for the decriminalization of abortion in Latin America and the Caribbean. In 2011, the campaign was globalized by the Women's Global Network for Reproductive Rights (WGNRR) and taken on by sexual and reproductive health and rights activists from all over the world.
Participate in the WGNRR's #IResistWePersist campaign!
Calls to action include:
1. Join the Cazerolazo for abortion rights! At 1pm in your time zone, join by making noise against the US Global Gag Rule. Gag yourself with a piece of fabric as a reference to the Global Gag Rule, while using a pot or pan to make noise and demonstrate your resistance to any attempted restrictions on abortion services.
2. Organize a community resistance event! Organize/Host a community discussion to talk about rollbacks such as the US Global Gag Rule, their impact on local SRH services, and what kind of strategies could be implemented in your communities.
3. Join the online resistance! A 3 hour twitter rally (10am to 1 pm your time zone) promoting the messaging and hashtag of the campaign!
4. Share with #IresistWepersist: Share the ways in which you resist by sending us a message written by YOU! Organizers will create a big, virtual hub of resistance where you can see the extent of resistance happening globally in numbers and share and learn from different experiences from all over the world. Use the hashtag #IresistWepersist to share on social media
To access campaign materials and information, go here .
To find out more about the actions, go here .
To access the #IresistWepersist flyer, go here.
Participate in the International Campaign's #LeavingNoOneBehind !
The #LeavingNoOneBehind campaign:
calls on the United Nations and its agencies – UN Women, UNFPA, WHO, UNAIDS, UNESCO and UNICEF, the European Union and the Ministers of Health of all national governments to make a public statement in support of International Safe Abortion Day, 28 September, as a symbolic marker of all women's right to life and health.
calls on the European Union and the leaders of all national governments to follow in the footsteps of the 'She Decides' Initiative and commit increased funding and human resources to global public health, including for sexual and reproductive health and rights – and including for safe abortion – as part of the Sustainable Development Goals
calls on all the members of the International Campaign for Women's Right to Safe Abortion to organize activities for 28 September 2017 and develop the theme #LeavingNoOneBehind in ways relevant to local contexts.
Campaigning themes and hashtags are here.
And don't forget to check out these additional, great resources:
Advocates for Youth's fact sheet, Youth and Unsafe Abortion, available in English, located here and French, here.
The World Health Organization's fact sheet on preventing unsafe abortion, 2017, located here.
Guttmacher Institute's global brief on induced abortion, located here.
The Center for Reproductive Rights World Abortion Laws Map for 2015, located here.
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The village of Devil's Bridge (in Welsh, Pontarfynach) is not far from Aberystwyth. Its most significant landmark is a remarkable gorge across which stand three bridges, one built on top of the other, a visible story of a thousand years of history. The recent TV drama Hinterland makes a great deal of use of the area. It's a dramatic place.
The top bridge, the road bridge from which you go to see the gorge, dates to 1901. It sits on top of a bridge built in 1708. And that stands on a bridge that dates to the eleventh century.
And that bridge? That one was built by Satan.
Satan came to Wales, so the story goes.
In Ceredigion he found an old woman. The old woman, who lived with no company but her dog, existed, as the majority of people always have, on the edge of poverty. Her livelihood, a cow, kept somehow finding its way, as cows do, across the gorge, and it had once more and she had no way of retrieving the animal. By night, the Devil came, disguised as a monk, and asked the old woman what she most wanted. The old woman said that she'd like that bloody gorge bridged. And the Devil said, sure, tomorrow a bridge would stand across the gorge, if she agreed that he could keep the first living creature to cross the bridge.
The old woman, somewhat taken aback, said, sure, and the Devil left her.
The following morning, she awoke, and there, when she went outside to exercise her dog, was the bridge. And on the far side, with the cow, was the Devil himself.
As she went to cross, the cunning old woman took a piece of bread from her pocket and tossed it across the bridge, and her dog went right after it.
The Devil, embarrassed at having been outwitted by an old peasant woman, vanished, presumably taking the dog with him, and never returned to Wales again.
This isn't the only bridge story – folklore trickster Jack o'Kent, who made a career of billing the Devil, gets a story just like this too.
This bridge remained, though and the falls nearby are called the Devil's Punchbowl, and the bridge is there still with two other bridges just plonked on top of it, solid in the way that stories rarely are.
Which means that, if we're assuming that the Devil did not in fact build the bridge, somewhere between the eleventh century and the Tudor period, the true provenance of the bridge was forgotten, and a story took its place.
The Welsh name of the area, Pontarfynach, means "the bridge over the River Mynach", but also means "The Monk's Bridge", and the tourist information has a little picture of a monk there as it cheerfully shares that information. One of the friends I accompanied there suggested that it might have something to do with Strata Florida, the Cistercian abbey that lies about 14 miles to the South. But the abbey wasn't founded until the 12th century, and while it could be that the bridge is later, and built by, or for, the monks, or by predecessors who were there before Strata Florida was founded, the fact is, no one is sure.
There's a bridge, it's old. The Devil built it, you say? It's as good a story as any.
The character of the myth has some interesting quirks. The idea that Wales is a country the Devil will not visit, and the cunning old woman who outwits him, they're very Welsh. The trope of a divine being taking the first living thing to come features in, for example, the story of Jephthah sacrificing his daughter (Judges 11:29-40), but of course these other stories end up the other way round. It's the Devil's logic the old woman uses and the turnaround is that while the poor dog loses its soul, the old woman's is the better part of the deal. The Devil, in folklore, honours the letter of a deal, always, but the grand and learned tend not to have an easy way out – Theophilus of Adama, a despairing 6th century priest, who made a pact, needed the direct intervention of the Virgin to get him out of his fix; Faust wasn't even as lucky as that.
The poor, now, always have the sneaking suspicion that for all the talk of Jesus, they're in fact ignored by God. God won't help them out. The Virgin Mary? No.
There are all these stories about ordinary people becoming witches by making pacts with the Adversary, and in poverty one might reasonably consider oneself to be forgotten by God. But the Devil, he's always there for the poor. And when it's only the Devil knocking at your door, you have to be ready.
Was the old woman of Devil's Bridge pious? Was she holy? Did she rebuke him and drive him off? Nope. She made a deal. It seems she got off easy, but the fact is, she was ready for the Devil to come knocking. The poor people who have to make a deal with the Adversary often have nothing but their wits, and wits are the Devil's foil.


"Gas stations, seen from some future place and time, will be uncovered as architectural relics of a lost world, like the Aztec temples or Easter Island. Future cultures, with other concerns, will wonder about their significance. How did they get there? Why were they built? How did they contribute to the rise and fall of this civilization?
Since the meteorite that caused the last ice age, no event has changed the earth or humanity as much as the recent use of fossil fuels. No war, religion, society, or political structure has impacted us more greatly in all history. Over the last 150 years (the industrial revolution) oil has become the earths' one unifying religion, gas stations our one common temple. All facets of the modern world are made possible through the use of fossil fuels. Agriculture, transportation, and the explosion in population are omnipresent across borders of countries and beliefs. Due to a cataclysmic event that radically changed the environment, forests buried under ice became fossil fuel. Ironically we now pump that same CO2 back into the atmosphere today.
The Gas Stations were shot on location in the rain forests of Maui. This ancient jungle can engulf the past, and at the same time represent the very matter that created the fuel. Recalling the calm emptiness of an Edward Hopper painting, the Gas Stations are a new take on the American landscape. They exemplify an isolation that proliferates and is built deeply into our culture. The analog scale models show the imperfections of a human hand, much in the same way that our man made system of creating energy is imperfect. However these images are not didactic, neither condemning, or condoning. They just are, they are what made our world possible. Its what we do with our approach now, which will decide our fate."
The Maruani & Noirhomme Gallery (Brussels, since 1995 – Knokke, since 2000) is specialized in American artists from the 1980s including Peter Halley, Ross Bleckner, Donald Baechler, Stuart Cumberland, David LaChapelle, Jonathan Lasker, David Salle, Phillip Taaffe, Sue Williams and Wendy White.


The latest piece from Australian designer Simon Duff, the Mushroom Floor lamp is designed to create mood lighting and provide ambient light to an interior space. The lights can be used independently or in small clusters and can be positioned in corners and against walls to intensify their light output.
The Floor lamp concept evolved from a desire to develop a range of sustainable lighting products for small scale production, and was created to fill a hole in the market for sustainable, low energy lighting products for everyday use. The lamps design utilises low wattage LED lighting technology now available on the market.
The lamp also offers the end user the ability to change the colour and intensity of the light source enabling the user to create new and different looks when ever they feel the need. This in effect allows the user to customize lighting scenes and also introduces the benefits of low wattage lighting and design to the domestic market.


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The Anthem is one of the District's largest music venues. All Souls occasionally serves as a concert venue and is a regular host of a square dance with live musicians. Epiphany is regularly a host of concerts and is the venue of choice for some of the area's classical groups. Concerts are usually inexpensive and tend to feature a wide variety of artists, mostly local.
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Driver spots tiny kitten on side of the road, ends up rescuing 13
Robert Brantley was leaving work when he spotted a tiny kitten on the side of the road. He stopped to rescue it – only to have twelve more little ones suddenly run out and surround him.
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It started out as a normal day for Robert Brantley, who was heading to the shooting range after work when he spotted a black and white kitten in the grass on the side of the road.
Brantley said he knew the tiny animal "wouldn't make it through the night" since it was obviously very young.
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"The wife has been wanting a cat for the farm; figured I'd stop and rescue the thing," he wrote.
Brantley backed up his vehicle and began recording a video on his cell phone, expecting to capture just the one kitten.
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As he grabbed the little one, which was barely bigger than his hand, six more kittens came bounding out of the grass toward him.
"Oh my gosh, there's more!" Brantley could be heard exclaiming. "I can't take you all!"
As the meowing kittens begin surrounding him, even more can be seen running out of the wooded area toward Brantley, which he described as getting "ambushed [by] the mob."
"We've got a kitten problem!" he said. "Who would do this?"
By the end of the video, he resigns himself to the fact that he will be rescuing them all.
"I thought I was saving one. Hot diggety dog!" Brantley sighs.
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A second video shows what happened once he managed to wrangle all the kittens into his car.
"I couldn't keep up with them as I would throw one in and 2 would jump out," he wrote. "So I had to close the door with the window down and funnel em in."
Since posting the videos to his Facebook page, they have gone viral, with thousands praising him for saving the litter. He has been asking his followers for advice on how to care for them as he works on finding homes for them.
However, Brantley says his family plans on keeping the very first kitten that he had stopped to rescue originally – and they've already named him "Scout."
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Paul Peterson photo Chassell's Sydney Danison puts in a short shot in Thursday's game versus Dollar Bay. The Panthers notched a 54-33 Copper Mountain Conference win.
DOLLAR BAY — One coach was happy with the play of their team while the other had an opposing view at Thursday night's Chassell-Dollar Bay girls basketball game.
"I was happy with our play as a team," CHS coach Brandi Hainault said after her team's 54-33 win. "The girls played hard and our defense was very good.
Blue Bolts skipper Steve Krahling was less than happy with his team's showing.
Chassell's junior guard Milly Allen had a lot to say about her team's running game. The diminutive Allen posted a triple-double with 14 points, made 11 steals and handed out 10 assists.
Now 12-4 on the season and 10-2 in the Copper Mountain Conference (CCC Division), the Panthers are pointing toward finishing strong.
"We want to have a good head of steam heading into the districts, although we still have a shot in the conference," Hainault pointed out.
As for his team, Krahling said he's still searching for consistency.
After falling behind by a 22-6 margin early in the second frame, the Bays rallied back and cut the deficit to 28-18 by the halftime break.
And they made it 28-20 early in the third quarter on a hoop by the hustling Cami Daavettila.
But baskets by Lela Rautiola and Sydney Danison helped up the lead to 41-25 by the end of the period.
Rautiola dropped in eight points in the final stanza to put the lid firmly on.
Rautiola had a game-high 15 points, followed by Allen's 14 markers. Danison was steady with 12 points and a game high 10 rebounds. She also blocked four shots.
The Blue Bolts, 4-12, 2-10, were led by Daavettila with 11 points and four steals. Bailey Poyhonen added seven points.
Chassell will go to Jeffers for a big game Monday.
DBHS goes to Watersmeet the same night.
CHASSELL – Hokenson 6, Pietila 2, Danison 12, Huhta 5, Allen 14, Rautiola 15; FT: 4-9; Rebounds: 29 (Danison 10); Fouls: 9; Fouled out: None; 3-point FG: Allen 1, Rautiola 1.
DOLLAR BAY — Busser 4, Isaacson 5, Daavettila 11, Poyhonen 7, Stout 2, Caskey 4. FT: 0-3; Rebounds: 22 (Busser 7); Fouls: 9; Fouled out: None; 3-point FG: Daavettila 3, Poyhonen 1, Isaacson 1.


July 28 - Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich observe 'Navy Day' in honor of the founding of the Black Sea Fleet. Rough cut (no reporter narration).
STORY: Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich celebrated on Sunday their countries' joint naval traditions and called for more military cooperation in the future. The two presidents observed Black Sea Fleet maneuvers and spoke at a ceremony marking Ukrainian-Russian Navy Day in the fleet's home port Sevastopol. Putin praised the sailors and veterans and championed the countries' ties. "Today we mark these significant holidays together, and it's symbolic that the center of this commemoration is in Sevastopol, namely here in Akhtiarskaya Bay, that 238 years ago the base was laid for the Black Sea Fleet," Putin said, before he and Yanukovich boarded a yacht to take them to join a naval parade.


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Dec 11, 2018 | Comment Analysis, Government
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The government is investing in oyster farms and Wagyu beef start-ups. Having privatised things which made a lot of money, like electricity assets and the Land Titles office, our leaders in NSW are now investing taxpayers' money, alongside a posse of ex-Macquarie bankers, in a WA beef project and a South Coast oyster caper. Michael West reports.
The government of Gladys Berejiklian has set up a fund, the GO NSW Equity Fund, to buy ownership stakes in private companies.
Advised by a private equity firm called Roc Partners, which was spun out of Macquarie, NSW taxpayers are now the proud owners of a stake in Australia's Oyster Coast and Roc Partners' Stone Axe Pastoral fund. Michael Lukin, Roc's managing partner is also the chairman of Stone Axe.
This reporter strove valiantly to penetrate the phalanx of state government public relations operatives and establish contact with somebody in the Premier's office, somebody in any government office would do, somebody, anybody au fait with the Surf 'n Turf investment program. Alas, none were forthcoming.
The relevant agency boss, Nicole Cooke from Jobs NSW, was unavailable to talk about conflicts of interest procedures, or anything else.
Although an entire state-government apparatus was unavailable for comment, the head of Roc, Michael Lukin, to his credit, was straight on the phone. No conflicts of interest he said. Procedures were fully in place with Jobs NSW and First State Super, the other partner in the private equity deals, to handle conflicts.
No, the government was not buying beef and oyster businesses *from* Roc Partners; this was private equity, the government was investing *with* Roc. Lukin pointed out, quite rightly, that other states had innovation set-ups too.
South Australia had its South Australia Venture Capital Fund, managed by Blue Sky Venture Capital. Queensland has its Business Development Fund, and there was the national Innovation Investment Fund program.
There was even the Future Fund for goodness sakes. Here was a Commonwealth government fund with dozens of private equity subsidiaries in the Cayman Islands.
Good haven! Even the government does it
Beyond the subject of governments promoting jobs and innovation, which is the point of these kinds of funds, there is a glorious paradox. That is, $70 billion of state assets have been privatised by the state government, including 20,000 properties over the past eight years, as well as roads, ports, power plants and the critical Land Titles office, whose fees have since shot through the roof.
Irreplaceable assets sold, replaced by replaceable assets. Valuable, highly profitable assets sold, risky assets bought. Price hikes. Here is a government which is trading complete ownership of monopolies for minority stakes in start-ups.
You wouldn't see this asset-vacillation from Singapore with its $300 billion commercial investment enterprise, Temasek, which owns and holds so many assets internationally, and here.
If the Government of NSW was a car dealership, would it be trading its fleet of late model Mercedes Benz for a rickshaw? That would be okay, if the car belonged to the NSW government.
The government has been elected to be the steward of its citizens' assets but where it has failed miserably is in being accountable for its spending. Hundreds of them can't even pick up the phone to a single journalist, such is the PR paranoia.
This government has failed to be transparent, to consult with its electors. Did the people get a say whether it was better to build a rail network, or roads, for the future of Sydney? No, no choice there, zero consultation. The roads were sold off to the Transurban monopolists to toll the city's roads for decades to come, tolls escalating at twice the rate of inflation; and Transurban pays no tax.
In 2011, the NSW Government sold its Energy Australia retail electricity business to a foreign firm, TRUenergy. That operation is now controlled by a company in the notorious British Virgin Islands. It pays zero tax. While consumers struggle with record power bills, Energy Australia's first half profits this year trebled.
This, and other electricity transmission and distribution companies, used to deliver hundreds of millions of dollars in revenues to the state coffers every year. They were sold for a one-off budget sugar hit and a slather of fees.
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There is little doubt they actually believe it is in the public interest to flog all this stuff – private sector efficiencies etc. There is no solid evidence for this belief. It is a neo-liberal article of faith. Otherwise there would be a reckoning. Where is the reckoning for this $70 billion sale, where is the cost-benefit analysis?
Which are the successful privatisations? Anybody? Has anybody done the work, the analysis, prices since privatisation, effect on competition, international comparisons? Treasury? The Auditor-General? Anybody who is not an "independent expert" with a government consulting gig on the other side of the Chinese wall?
Or have the politicians simply been "played off the break" by investment bankers and their lackeys in the media; conned by big four consulting firms, think tanks and inveigled by party donors? Shellacked for a poultice of fees? All because of an idea, the idea that government can't run things; things are better in private hands.
And now, now that it's all been sold, seventy thousand million dollars worth, before fees – the advisers whisper seductively – "jobs and innovation", let's buy this stuff over here; everybody loves oysters and Wagyu beef. Fees on the way out, fees on the way in.
Land titles: the folly of privatising an essential monopoly
Beyond the deals, there is the question of relentlessly decaying confidence in government. The secrecy goes to the failure to be accountable for the use of public money.
And now, as they deploy the funds from the sale of the Land Titles Office (LPI) to knock down sports stadiums and build them again, the question has to be put … who are they doing this for?
The word is Singo, Gerry Harvey, Mark Carnegie, Rupert Murdoch (Fox Studios next door) and others will mint it – thanks to the millions splashed on the new stadium and attendant infrastructure, to be financed by you-know-who.
You won't see the in-depth stories in the News Corp press about this deal. Fairfax either, so far. Puff pieces rather. ABC will be madly self-censoring, wrapped up with fears of complaints from, heaven forbid, big business.
This is another elite stadium debacle in the making. Tennis NSW And Tennis Australia's move on Newcastle's biggest community tennis centre. That will be muted too.
Transparency and disclosure. Bring it on.
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With one punishing race left in Tour de Ski, a pair of Anchorage skiers have big things to shoot for
Anchorage skier Rosie Brennan, who won the silver medal in a 10K freestyle race Tuesday in Italy, still owns the overall lead in the women's World Cup standings. (AP Photo/Alessandro Trovati)
A pair of Anchorage skiers have plenty of motivation to help them push through the torturous final stage of the 15th annual Tour de Ski on Sunday.
With their results Saturday in Val di Fiemme, Italy, Rosie Brennan held onto her overall lead in the World Cup standings and Gus Schumacher kept himself in position to pull off the best Tour de Ski overall finish by an American man.
Brennan placed 12th in the women's classic sprint race to maintain possession of the World Cup's yellow bib, which is worn by the skier who leads the overall world rankings. Brennan, the second American to wear the bib, has been the World Cup leader since mid-December.
Brennan, a 2018 Winter Olympian from Alaska Pacific University, had hope for more out of the day, but the results was nonetheless a career-best — she had never before made it to the semifinals of a classic sprint.
"I'm happy to have crossed that barrier," she said by email. "I would have loved to have a dream day today to set me up well for tomorrow. That didn't quite happen, but it was not a disaster either. I am still in the fight for a strong overall and am looking forward to duking it out the hill tomorrow."
Through seven races in the eight-race Tour de Ski race series, Brennan sits in seventh place overall. Minnesota's Jessie Diggins leads the standings — though she placed 10th Saturday, she made the podium in each of the first six races.
Schumacher, an Alaska Winter Stars skier, is 18th in the men's standings after placing 24th in Saturday's sprint.
No American man has ever finished the Tour de Ski with a top-20 ranking — Noah Hoffman came close in 2016 when he finished 22nd — so Schumacher could make some history with a strong finish Sunday.
A strong finish, of course, is never easy in the Tour de Ski. The challenging series of eight races in the 10 days wraps up with a 10-kilometer race that ends with a punishing 3.5-kilometer climb up a steep alpine ski slope.
Schumacher, a 20-year-old in his first season on the World Cup circuit, has so far been up to the challenge in his first appearance in the Tour de Ski. He turned in three straight top-15 finishes prior to the sprint, including a career-best eighth-place showing in Friday's 15-kilometer classic race.
Brennan, Schumacher and Diggins were among six Americans who advanced to Saturday's sprint heats. APU's Hailey Swirbul made it as far as the quarterfinals en route to a 17th-place finish in the women's race.
Sweden's Oskar Svensson and Linn Svahn claimed the gold medals.


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Museums give peek into secret world of Yves Saint Laurent
Yves Saint Laurent was one of greatest yet most private fashion designers of the 20th century.
Now only weeks after the death of his partner and lover Pierre Berge, the hard-nosed business brain behind the legend and the keeper of the flame, some of the creator's innermost secrets are coming to light.
The first of two new museums dedicated to his memory opens in Paris on Monday as a raft of new books and documentaries -- including one on his erotic drawings -- attempt to decode the mysteries of the painfully shy man who revolutionised women's fashion.
The Paris mansion where Saint Laurent shook up the dress codes for more than three decades has been turned into a museum for his haute couture creations.
A much larger museum, also paid for by the foundation set up by Berge to safeguard his partner's legacy, opens next month in Marrakesh, the Moroccan city the couple loved and where Saint Laurent would often first sketch out his collections.
"Coco Chanel liberated women, but Yves Saint Laurent gave them power," Berge once said, by appropriating the symbols of power from the male wardrobe -- dinner jackets, safari suits and jumpsuits -- and remaking them for women.
- Inner sanctum -
"I had noticed men were much more confident in their clothes," Saint Laurent once said in a rare interview. "So I sought through trouser suits, trenchcoats, tuxedos and pea coats to give women the same confidence."
His black tuxedo for women, known as "Le Smoking" -- often wore over bare flesh -- caused a scandal in 1966, with the New York socialite Nan Kempner dropping her pants when she was told by a Manhattan restaurant that women in trousers would not be admitted.
Saint Laurent would later design a jacket as a thigh-skimming mini dress just as Kempner, one of his best customers, had worn it.
The heart of the new Paris museum is Saint Laurent's studio, the inner sanctum where he would work night and day in the run-up to his shows.
It remains just as he left it in 2002, his desk festooned with photos of his inner circle of glamorous female friends which included Catherine Deneuve, Bianca Jagger and Paloma Picasso.
Pride of place, however, goes to a New Year's card he made from a painting his friend Andy Warhol did of his French bulldog Moujik.
One wall of the room is completely mirrored, which allowed Saint Laurent to work directly on his live models so he could see his creation from all angles as it progressed.
The museum also gives revealing insight into Saint Laurent's creative process, developing his clothes from very basic sketches into complex designs that, in the case of some of his haute couture creations, could take thousands of hours to make.
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"Unlike many other designers Saint Laurent began systematically archiving his work in the early 1960s -- encouraged by Berge -- and so we can follow the evolution of each item," said a spokesman for the museum, which holds a treasury of 5,000 prototypes for his creations.
Other rooms in the museum are given over to Saint Laurent's inspiration and the "imaginary voyages" his collections often took to Asia, Africa and most famously Russia.
But other than his sojourns in Morocco -- which reminded him of his native Algeria where he was born in 1936 while it was still French -- the designer was not much of a traveller.
With Berge he built up a considerable art collection and he borrowed liberally from artists like Picasso, Matisse and Van Gogh, most famously with his Mondrian dress, which became an instant pop icon when it hit the catwalk in 1965.
Berge always believed that Saint Laurent -- who had begun his career by stepping into the shoes of Christian Dior when he was just 21 -- was nothing less than an exceptional artist, calling him "the greatest designer of the second half of the 20th century".
Having "spent all my life helping Yves Saint Laurent build his work, which I want to last", Berge died earlier this month, just weeks before the museums opened.
His husband, the American landscape artist Madison Cox -- whom he married this summer -- told AFP that "10 days before he died he told me that 'I am going to die totally at peace', and I think that was true. He was a very determined man and he had put everything in place."
Cox said the museums were also a tribute to Berge's work supporting and protecting the fragile Saint Laurent, who was haunted by drug and drink addictions.
"Of course I and the whole team are profoundly sad that he will not be here," added Cox, who now heads the pair's charitable foundation. "But he would have wanted that we go on."
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Bhuvneshwar ready for CWC after a decent IPL
Bhuvneshwar Kumar has become a constant name in Indian cricket team. He will be a significant part of India's bowling squad for the World Cup 2019. Bhuvi was one of those seven members of Men in Blue who were part of India's last World Cup venture as well. The concluding session of IPL has also witnessed some of his magnificent spells that will make him a dark horse for India. In a recent interview with Times of India Bhuvneshwar opened up about his journey, injuries, and the mega event ahead.
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Kumar mentioned how he has evolved since the last World Cup and believes that he has imporved "in terms of pace and variations like the slower ball and knuckle ball. To add to that, I have improved fitness-wise." While talking about injuries, he mentioned, "When you are injured and are undergoing rehabilitation, it is important to stay positive and not allow negative thoughts to creep in." He added how those times are important in sense of working harder and getting oneself motivated.
When he was asked about his equation with Shami and Bumrah, he explained how they back each other in any type of condition with the motto being doing well for the team. Each knows about his strength and accordingly tries to contribute. He thinks that Indian bowling attack has become stronger with time although refuses to comment how it is referred as India's best pace attack ever. "I don't want to comment on whether we are the best or not because our performance on the field is what will define our attack. Our performances over the last few years speak for us. The Indian bowling attack has grown from strength to strength. Today, we can say that our pace attack can make an impact on any surface."
IPL & World Cup 2019
Bhuvneshwar Kumar believes IPL worked as a good platform for practice before World Cup starting from May 30. It gave the required boast and confidence to the players. "Once you have wickets and runs under your belt, the confidence levels automatically go up. For me, it was important to be in good rhythm and be among wickets which I was able to do for Sunrisers Hyderabad."
The 29-year old seemed quite excited about his second World Cup and shared his planning. "I agree that pitches in England in the last few years have been flat, but teams will be wary of India's bowling unit since we can be potent both at the start and at the death. It will all boil down to how we execute the plans on the given day." He added, "I have always enjoyed bowling in England because there is some swing around, which is my strength. Unlike in India, pitches in England don't usually get slower as the game progresses. So depending on whether the ball is moving or not, I make my plans."
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Judging American Idol: This Is The End
The final performances have been given; it's all in your hands, America...
By HippyGirlHeather on May 25, 2011 1:48 AM |
Tonight's show starts off with the introduction of the two remaining Idol contestants- Scotty McCreery and Lauren Alaina. Ryan refers to the match up as the "boy next door" versus the "Southern belle" and informs us they both love country music, both are merely teenagers, and both want to win this season's American Idol. Ryan addresses rumors that were swirling around right before the show began regarding Lauren's lack of a voice in rehearsals. One rumor was that Haley Reinhart was prepping to take Lauren's place in tonight's finale, just in case. Ryan called out the show's doctor who told us that she essentially sprained a vocal chord and is hopped up on tons of drugs and will be fine. Ryan dramatically asks "will she be able to make it the entire show?" Apparently this doctor is also a psychic because he said she'll make it without a doubt.
Contestants are going to sing three songs- their favorite of the season, a song picked by their idol, and then their future single should they be crowned winner tomorrow night. Scotty won the coin toss last week and in a brainless, yet gentlemanly move, deferred to Lauren and she wisely decided to go second.
Scotty started us off with "Gone" by Montgomery Gentry and he did it better than earlier in the season...he started off down the aisle in the audience and was over animated but did his darndest to fill up the Nokia Theater, his vocals suffered as a result...but, he was a good time. He had the girls up front going nuts and was very playful and interactive with the audience.
Lauren sings Carrie Underwood's "Flat On The Floor." She, too, sang it better than earlier in the season and had an amazing moment in the middle. She was rockin' it out a little, I loved it. Cameras pan to judges getting into it, lots of Lauren signs and tonight is feeling very skewed in Lauren's favor (a Dr. in scrubs came out on the stage to "clear" her to perform for God's sake). Her performance was one of her best but like Scotty, her vocals suffered as a result.
In that round I'd call it a draw and neither teen seemed to be swallowed up by the enormity of the Nokia Theater which is major considering their age and virtual inexperience.
George Strait picks his own song; "Check Yes Or No" for Scotty which is a flirty, love note song between elementary age kids, very appropriate for Scotty's age, range, and delivery. It was low energy but solid. He was again very interactive with the audience and handled himself as if he was headlining his own show.
Lauren's idol is Carrie Underwood and she picks "Maybe It Was Memphis" by Pam Tillis for Lauren. I love this song, it's big, sultry, and well-written. Lauren rushed through it and was too breathy in the wrong parts and appropriately breathy in the right parts as well. I do love that they both got '90s country songs, I also loved that Lauren rose to the occasion and acted like a bit of a star...more so than she has so far this season. Her vocals seemed stretched and she's limited range-wise as it is so it wasn't very good compared to the original but, it was good for Lauren.
Randy gives round one to Scotty...slightly. Round two to Lauren…slightly...JLo agrees and Steven gives both rounds to Lauren "because she's prettier than you are." Way to keep it serious and professional, Stevie.
Taio Cruz comes out next and sings some nonsense I guess the fans helped write over the course of the season.
Next we get their final performances of the night and Jimmy Iovine is giddy over the pick for Scotty's first single called "I Love You This Big." As he sings, a jumbotron behind him shows his journey thus far and I realize he didn't shave his head! His song is cute but again it's low energy. I wanted low, low notes for the finale and got one. It's a sweet, country love song that sounds like every other sweet, country love song out there. The judges look underwhelmed; Randy said the song may not have been the best song for him but vocally it was great. JLo said he sold the song and told the story of a song we'd never even heard before, Steven babbled something ridiculous then smiled great big. It felt like they already felt he'd lost the competition.
Lauren gets a more personal song called "Like My Mother Does." It's totally emotional and touching, she even walked down and loved on her momma as she sang to her. Her mom was lifting up a praise hand to the Heavens like she was in church which activated my gag reflex, to be honest with you. They handed Lauren a moment and the competition and a bedazzled, gold plated platter. Everyone's bawling, Randy said Jimmy did her right and he gushed all over the place over her and gave her a standing O. JLo said it was a tight race but with that song she may have just won. Steven says Lauren is his American Idol. No one said that crap to Scotty...which could get his girl fans all hot and bothered and texting their thumbs to the bone, you never know-American Idol is a tricky, monstrous, well-oiled machine. Nothing is chance or accident around there. JLo said Scotty's been her front runner the whole time, and won't pick a winner for this round, Randy said slight edge to Lauren and Steven said no doubt...Lauren, hands down.
Scotty was agreeing and patting Lauren and grinning great big for her and telling her nice things that made her shake her head "no"; I'm thinking he told her she was great and just won.
To close out the show we get David Cook doing "Don't You Forget About Me" as an ode to all of this season's finalists. I don't like him, his voice, his style-none of it; but, he was the best performance of the night. The age, maturity and experience gap has never seemed bigger.
It's tough to call how this will go down for the country teens but, I will say while Lauren out-performed Scotty (as I knew she would), Scotty looked the most confident and like he was headlining his own show and Lauren acted like she was performing on a music competition show. I'm hoping Scotty is the winner but as we all say every year: it doesn't matter who wins, they will both do fine.
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